Re: [Nolug] script to read part of line

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Christopher M. Jones wrote:

> I need a quick script (any language) to put the (e.g.) eighth through
> twelfth character of each line of a plain text file into a separate
> file, each set of characters on a new line. I've forgotten all my sed
> and awk, and I just don't have the time to work it all out. Can anyone
> post a few lines to me?

No need for sed or awk:

cut -c 8-12 SOURCE_FILE > TARGET_FILE

Dave

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